Uncle Jeremiah Wright was Right [Updated] (Update 2)

Boy did Reverend Wright call it correctly the other day. He indicated that Barack is the kind of guy who will say politically what needs to be said regardless of what he believes. Well, Barack proved him right. Two months ago he had never heard Wright say anything objectionable in 20 years. Now, apparently, in the last eight weeks, aliens have taken over the body and mind of Wright and he is saying things he has never said before. Right? Wrong.

What do you think?

UPDATE. Compare Obama’s statements today with what he said in the past. What has he learned about Wright in the last eight weeks that he did not know previously? Obama indicated he had heard Wright say objectionable things about the United States, but he could shrug it off during his Philly speech. I think we are seeing the emergence of a new illness–Obama Acquired Memory Loss (which is LMAO spelled backwards). He spent twenty years with Wright but really did not know that he held such objectionable views? He has spent approximately twenty years with William Ayers and barely knows the guy? He spent 18 years with Tony Rezko and barely knows him? Sure sounds like Obama does not know much of anything.

Barack says he didn’t “vet” his pastor. Really? Then why did Barack ask him not to appear in public with him when he announced for President (but was willing to pray with him backstage)? Here are the Barack flip flops:

Early last year, Obama admitted to Wright he might have to ‘publicly distance himself’ for political reasons. Mr. Wright, who has long prided himself on criticizing the establishment, said he knew that he may not play well in Mr. Obama’s audition for the ultimate establishment job. “If Barack gets past the primary, he might have to publicly distance himself from me,” Mr. Wright said with a shrug. “I said it to Barack personally, and he said yeah, that might have to happen.” [New York Times, 4/30/07]

Obama today: ‘I did not vet my pastor before I decided to run for the presidency.’ “During the course of me attending that church, I had not heard those kinds of statements being made or those kinds of views being promoted. And I did not vet my pastor before I decided to run for the presidency.” [Obama Press Conference, 4/29/08]

[HUH? Before declaring for President, Obama disinvited Wright from his official announcement, citing 'rough' sermons. "Mr. Wright said that in the phone conversation in which Mr. Obama disinvited him from a role in the announcement, Mr. Obama cited an article in Rolling Stone, 'The Radical Roots of Barack Obama.'…According to the pastor, Mr. Obama then told him, 'You can get kind of rough in the sermons, so what we’ve decided is that it’s best for you not to be out there in public.'" [New York Times, 3/6/07]]

Sen. Obama today: ‘During the course of me attending that church, I had not heard those kinds of statements being made or those kinds of views being promoted.’ “But the insensitivity and the outrageousness of his statements and his performance and the question and answer period yesterday, I think, shocked me. It surprised me… During the course of me attending that church, I had not heard those kinds of statements being made or those kinds of views being promoted. And I did not vet my pastor before I decided to run for the presidency. I was a member of the church.” [Obama Press Conference, 4/29/08]

Sen. Obama in March: I heard Wright make ‘controversial’ statements about ‘American domestic and foreign policy.’ “Did I know him to be an occasionally fierce critic of American domestic and foreign policy? Of course. Did I ever hear him make remarks that could be considered controversial while I sat in church? Yes. Did I strongly disagree with many of his political views? Absolutely…” [Sen. Obama speech, 3/18/08]

Obama describes Wright as ‘the guy who counsels me, listens to my wife complain about me. He’s a friend and a great leader.’ “I got to give a special shout-out to my pastor. The guy who puts up with me, counsels me, listens to my wife complain about me. He’s a friend and a great leader, not just in Chicago but all throughout the country. So please, everybody, give an extraordinary welcome to my pastor, Dr. Jeremiah Wright Jr.” [Obama remarks, Hampton University, June 2007; video]

[UPDATE 2] PUHLEAZE!! Like the gendarme in Casablanca poor Senator Obama is shocked, shocked I tell you, by the outrageous things Wright said yesterday. You have got to be kidding me? Wright said worse, on video tape, on multiple occasions and Barack had no trouble ignoring those. So what did he say yesterday that Barack found so damn objectionable? How does this reconcile with Barack’s previous statements?

3/17/08 -Obama: ‘I think the caricature that is being painted of [Wright] is not accurate.’ “I think the caricature that is being painted of him is not accurate. And so part of what I’ll do tomorrow is to talk a little bit about how some of these issues are perceived from within the black church community, for example, which I think views this very differently.” [Obama press briefing, 3/17/08]

3/15/08 – Obama: ‘In fairness to him, this was sort of a greatest hits. They basically culled five or six sermons out of 30 years of preaching.’ The things he said and the way he said them I think are offensive. And I reject them, and they don’t reflect who I am or what I believe in. In fairness to him, this was sort of a greatest hits. They basically culled five or six sermons out of 30 years of preaching. That doesn’t excuse them, and I’ve said so very clearly, but that’s not the relationship I had with him. That’s not the relationship I had with the church, and if I had heard those kinds of statements being said, if I had been in church on those days, I would have objected fiercely to them, and I would have told him personally. [Chicago Tribune, 3/15/08 ]